LEADING TWO-YEAR-OLD SIRE SCAT DADDY Penultimate crop among his best COURTESY ASHFORD STUD ASHFORD COURTESY BY EVAN HAMMONDS Scat Daddy had seven juvenile stakes winners in 2017 THE LATE SCAT DADDY was a rare individual, a Storm Cat, 1983 Storm Bird 8s, SW, $570,610 Hennessy, 1993 1,414 f, 181 SW, 2.95 AEI Terlingua brilliant runner at 2 who was able to carry forward 9s, SW, $580,400 Island Kitty, 1976 JOHANNESBURG, 1,346 f, 76 SW, 1.56 AEI Hawaii 23s, wnr, $104,236 into his 3-year-old season. He proved rarer still in the b, 1999 13 f, 12 r, 9 w, 4 SW T. C. Kitten breeding shed, leading the first-crop sires list in 2011 Ogygian, 1983 Damascus 10s, SW, $455,520 and adding a posthumous title as the leading sire of Myth, 1993 816 f, 24 SW, 1.19 AEI Gonfalon 16s, wnr, $25,110 10 f, 10 r, 6 w, 1 SW Yarn, 1987 Mr. Prospector juveniles in 2017. His precociousness came from both 6s, wnr, $19,108 SCAT DADDY 6 f, 5 r, 5 w, 3 SW Narrate his sire, Johannesburg (multiple champion at 2), and dkb/br, h May 11, 2004 Raise a Native, 1961 Native Dancer 4s, SW, $45,955 his dam, the unraced Love Style, a Mr. Prospector Mr. Prospector, 1970 838 f, 78 SW, 2.35 AEI Raise You 14s, SW, $112,171 1,178 f, 181 SW, 3.91 AEI Gold Digger, 1962 Nashua daughter of grade 1 sprinter Likeable Style. 35s, SW, $127,255 12 f, 7 r, 7 w, 3 SW Sequence Scat Daddy’s departure at 11 in late 2015 left breeders Nijinsky II, 1967 LOVE STYLE, Northern Dancer 13s, SW, $667,220 ch, 1999 grasping for his final foals at last year’s yearling sales. Likeable Style, 1990 851 f, 155 SW, 4.49 AEI Flaming Page 11s, SW, $322,326 Scat Daddy, winner of the Champagne Stakes (G1) as a juve- 6 f, 5 r, 4 w, 1 SW Personable Lady, 1981 No Robbery 18s, SW, $227,971 nile and the Fountain of Youth Stakes (G2) and Florida Derby 7 f, 6 r, 5 w, 1 SW Porthole (G1) at 3, stood his entire career at the Coolmore group’s Ash- ford Stud near Versailles, Ky. He also shuttled one season to passed before he covered a mare that season. Coolmore Australia and three seasons to Haras Paso Nevado His penultimate crop, headed by Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf in Chile, where he was the leading sire four years running (G1T) winner Mendelssohn, earned $3,318,789 and produced a (2013-16). list-topping 39 winners from 83 runners. Scat Daddy’s stud fee dipped in North America—from an Mendelssohn, out of 2017 Kentucky Broodmare of the Year entry fee of $30,000 to a recession-reduced $10,000 for 2011, Leslie’s Lady, was the highest-priced North American year- but it rose to $17,500, then $30,000, and $35,000 before an ling of 2016, bringing a $3 million bid from M.V. Magnier at advertised six-figure fee was announced for 2016. However, he the Keeneland September sale. Mendelssohn ran second in Copyright©2018, BloodHorse. Reprinted with permission of copyright owner. JANUARY 13, 2018 / BloodHorse.com / 35 2-YearOld Sires_Jan13.indd 35 1/8/18 2:32 PM BLACK YELLOWMAGENTACYAN BH2-35.pgs 01.08.2018 14:46 TheBloodHorse LEADING TWO-YEAR-OLD SIRE Newmarket’s Darley Dewhurst Stakes (G1) prior to shipping to Del Mar for the Breeders’ Cup. He’s being pointed toward the American classics by trainer Aidan O’Brien. Scat Daddy had seven 2-year-old stakes winners in 2017, headed by Men- delssohn, but he was also represented by Sioux Nation, a group 2 winner in June of Royal Ascot’s Norfolk Stakes and a group 1 victor in the Keeneland Phoenix Stakes in Ireland in August. In September, Sea- henge won Doncaster’s group 2 Howcraft Industrial Supplies Champagne Stakes SKIP DICKSTEIN (Mendelssohn was seventh) and in back- Mendelssohn captures the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf to-back weekends in the U.S., Seabhac won the Sept. 30 Pilgrim Stakes (G3T) LEADING TWO-YEAR-OLD SIRES while Flameaway won Keeneland’s off- the-turf Dixiana Bourbon Stakes (G3) Year Sire Earnings Oct. 8. 2017 SCAT DADDY $3,318,789 2016 Into Mischief $3,104,999 Of note, Scat Daddy is from the Storm 2015 Uncle Mo $3,675,388 Cat line out of a mare by Mr. Prospector. 2014 Giant’s Causeway $2,974,366 Seahenge, Flameaway, and Seabhac all 2013 Rockport Harbor $2,520,548 have Mr. Prospector in their female lines 2012 Harlan’s Holiday $2,954,556 as does Exacta Systems Juvenile Fillies 2011 Kitten’s Joy $1,766,633 Stakes winner Ultima D. 2010 More Than Ready $1,970,306 While honored as the leading sire of 2009 Offlee Wild $1,951,283 COGLIANESE/NYRA ADAM Seabhac winning the grade 3 Pilgrim juveniles, Scat Daddy was best seen dur- 2008 Tapit $2,811,337 Stakes at Belmont Park ing the Royal Ascot meet in England in 2007 Cherokee Run $2,161,101 June where he was represented by four 2006 Stormy Atlantic $2,075,268 wins from 15 starts and major victo- 2005 Giant’s Causeway $1,609,426 SONS OF SCAT DADDY AT STUD 2004 Storm Cat $1,927,589 ries by Lady Aurelia in the King’s Stand Stallion Location 2003 Tale of the Cat $1,967,893 Stakes (G1) and Caravaggio in the group 1 Caravaggio Coolmore Stud (Ireland) 2002 Storm Cat $2,320,185 Commonwealth Cup. Daddy Long Legs Haras Cordillera (Chile) 2001 Hennessy $1,752,466 Beyond leading the juvenile list, Scat Daddy Nose Best BG Thoroughbred Farm (CA) Daddy ranks sixth on the 2017 general El Kabeir Yeomanstown Stud (Ireland) 2017 JUVENILE STAKES sires list and is second with six grade/ Finale Hunter Creek Farms (NM) WINNERS FOR SCAT DADDY group 1 winners behind the seven posted Frac Daddy Park Stud (Ontario) by Medaglia d’Oro. Scat Daddy’s chief Daddy Is a Legend Seabhac Handsome Mike Pleasant Acres Stallions (FL) earner, Daddys Lil Darling, won the Flameaway Seahenge No Nay Never Coolmore Stud (Ireland) American Oaks (G1T) at Santa Anita Dec. Mendelssohn Ultima D Scatman Foggy Bottom Farm (NY) 30. Scat Daddy’s 27 black-type stakes Sioux Nation Tu Brutus Crestwood (KY) winners on the year were tops in North America. of $314,296 and a median of $250,000— 2018. No Nay Never, who stands at Cool- With his final crop of yearlings making both figures placing him in the top 10. In more Ireland, was his first 2-year-old their way through the sale ring in 2017, 2016, 75 yearlings averaged $234,487, grade/group 1 winner in 2013. Nickname Scat Daddy was a popular play. He had which included Mendelssohn. followed in 2015, with Lady Aurelia and 71 yearlings sell last year for an average Scat Daddy has 10 sons standing in Caravaggio in 2016. B 36 / BloodHorse.com / JANUARY 13, 2018 / TheBloodHorse / BloodHorse Copyright©2018, BloodHorse. Reprinted with permission of copyright owner. 2-YearOld Sires_Jan13.indd 36 1/8/18 2:32 PM BLACK YELLOWMAGENTACYAN BH2-36.pgs 01.08.2018 14:46 TheBloodHorse .